Laptop upgrades

[redls1]

Have a toshiba 1555cds and I want to upgrade a little. I already put a 128 mb stick(max) and I want to add a hard drive and cpu. I called toshiba and they were worthless. Hard drive as long as it fits should be ok but can I add a processor and does it have jumpers I can change? I know it has to be a laptop chip. Was looking at a cleron 600. Can anyone help?

 

[Musicman6425]

Have you tried the Toshiba web site. It should give you the layout for you laptop including jumper settings for a specific clock speed. And, I had a toshiba laptop, there tech support is worthless.

Good luck!!!

 

[redls1]

I looked on the website and it just gave basic specs of the laptop, not to much technical.

 

[nightowl]

You probably will be able to upgrade the hard drive without a problem but you are not going to get a Celeron 600 in it since the K6-2 CPUs are still based on the old Socket 7 architecture and Celerons and P3s are P6 architectures which are incompatible with Socket 7. Since, your laptop has an AMD K6-2 cpu in it chances are you will not be able to get a new CPU. Although, you may be able to find a mobile K6-2 chip but you are looking at 550MHz or so max.

 

[redls1]

Thanks good point . Should have thought about that on the cpu. Ill just look for a k6 II
550MHZ.

 

[DDad]

Strongly suggest you try to find either a K6-2+ or K6-3+ - they are the highest performers in the K6-line, run cooler than the standard K6, and are reasonably good O/Cers (although that isn't much of a point for a notebook)
One thing to find out- whether or not the Bios will recognize them